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[Nettime-bold] ALIENS PRIDE 2000 - Respect the Universe |
Panspermia is the name for the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores. This piece depicts a single life cycle of an inter-galactic life form, as an unusual example of a self propagating system. A seed crashes onto a barren planet and explodes into aggressive forms of botanical life, which grow into tangled forests and cover the planet's surface. Eventually cannon shaped plants emerge and fire new seeds back out into space to complete the cycle This unusual botanical form of life, reproducing itself from planet to planet throughout space, is in many ways analogous to other self replicating systems, including humans, entire species, and even ideas. A window into this panspermic system will hopefully expand awareness of self propagating systems in general, as well as inspire thoughts about our entire planet of life as a single entity The original theory of chemist Svante Aarhenius proposed that bacterial spores spread slowly by passive processes to Earth from elsewhere in the Universe. In 1981, the Nobel Prizewinning Molecular Biologist, published a popular book entitled "Life Itself". Crick argued that because of the universality of the genetic code in Earth's biosphere, life probably originated here from a single prokaryotic ancestor that probably arrived from space. He proposed that life was sent here by extraterrestrial civilizations in interstellar robot craft. He termed this model "Directed Panspermia" The discovery in 1996 of evidence for ancient microbacterial life</a></b> in a chunk of meteorite that came from the planet Mars, revolutionized our thoughts on the probability of life arising elsewhere in our solar system and the universe beyond, especially in the light of recent news about planetlike bodies detected around other stars. The NASA research team of scientists at the Johnson Space Center and at Stanford University has found evidence that strongly suggests primitive life may have existed on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago. The NASA-funded team found the first organic molecules thought to be of Martian origin; several mineral features characteristic of biological activity; and possible microscopic fossils of primitive, bacteria-like organisms inside of an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a meteorite. This array of indirect evidence of past life will be reported in the Aug. 16 issue of the journal Science, presenting the investigation to the scientific community at large to reach a future consensus that will either confirm or deny the team's conclusion. This startling discovery, that points to the possibility that a primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars more than three billion years ago, opened the field of Exobiology, the study of extraterrestrial fossils. It also raises the question and discussion about the possibility that Earth life originated on alien worlds. Exobiology is the study of chemical evolution, the origin and early evolution of life, and the search for life and life-related compounds in the solar system. It draws upon almost every area of science, from astronomy to molecular biology to geochemistry. The history of the Earth's biosphere began with the origin of life, and thus the study of exobiology is crucial to understanding biology on Earth as well as elsewhere in the universe. The grand vision of Origins Initiative is to follow the 15-billion-year chain of events from the birth of the universe through the formation of galaxies, and on to the development of life on Earth. One of its main goals is to develop astrobiology, a term deemed wider in scope than exobiology, because it includes both terrestrial and extraterrestrial studies It addresses the question: Is life a cosmic imperative? Are we really sons of an intelligent universe? Everything changed, with the sensational claim that a meteorite from Mars contains fossil evidence of microorganisms. Whether or not the claim withers under intense scientific scrutiny, few doubt that primitive organisms could have evolved on ancient Mars, where titanic rivers once gushed beneath a thick, gaseous atmosphere. Finding that life may have started on two neighbouring planets in a single planetary system is remarkable enough. But add to this the recent discovery that many nearby stars are accompanied by planets, and there is the distinct possibility that our Galaxy is teeming with life. Suddenly, there are renewed worries about a long-standing puzzle: if life is widespread, why has the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, drawn a blank? Where are the aliens? Aliens In Roma, the first alien life form (without form) detected on planet Earth, present: ALIENS PRIDE 2000 - Coming Outer!, the answer to this question. They're here, Aliens On Earth, fully conscious of their origin and still holding their native powers, that working side by side with the (in)human population, will build, teach, and offer technologies for reconstruction. The extraterrestrial souls on Earth, as ordinary as can be, are now here to support the esoplanetary initiation of (in)humanities into a living, crystallized force of techno-mutants. To land there, "where no human ever landed before..." ALIENS PRIDE 2000: Coming Outer! http://www.aliensinroma.com/blucis/theopenpopstar.htm http://www.aliensinroma.com/blucis/alienspride.htm _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold